CAN SELF-DEFENSE JUSTIFY PUNISHMENT?

This piece is a review essay on Victor Tadros's The Ends of Harm. Tadros rejects retributive desert but believes punishment can be justified instrumentally without succumbing to the problems of thoroughgoing consequentialism and endorsing using people as means. He believes he can achieve these...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Law and philosophy 2013-03, Vol.32 (2/3), p.159-175
1. Verfasser:	ALEXANDER, LARRY
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Boulders Criminal conspiracy Criminal culpability Criminal justice Criminal law Criminal punishment Defendants Deontology Ethics Justified beliefs Killing Law Law and Criminology Legal History Moral philosophy Philosophical thought Philosophy of Law Political Philosophy Punishment Retributive justice Self defense Self-management Tadros, Victor Theories of Law
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Zusammenfassung:	This piece is a review essay on Victor Tadros's The Ends of Harm. Tadros rejects retributive desert but believes punishment can be justified instrumentally without succumbing to the problems of thoroughgoing consequentialism and endorsing using people as means. He believes he can achieve these results through extension of the right of self-defense. I argue that Tadros fails in this endeavor: he has a defective account of the means principle; his rejection of desert leads to gross mismatches of punishment and culpability; and he cannot account for punishment of inchoate crimes.
ISSN:	0167-5249 1573-0522
DOI:	10.1007/s10982-012-9157-y